Counting each day between Passover and Shavuot—a journey from slave consciousness to the mental freedom to receive Torah, is an exercise in our personal redemption. Download this study guide, to learn why this biblical tradition is relevant to our spiritual lives even today.

In 1997 when I directed KESHER, the Union for Reform Judaism’s college program (at the time the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, or UAHC), the internet was just becoming a necessity for communication within college student circles. I saw an opportunity:  Nowhere was there access to Jewish liturgy that could be used on campuses, and KESHER could create a website to serve as the treasure-trove of downloadable liturgy.  We also produced floppy disks, the “Campus Resource Diskette,” with copies of the true-type font for installation on personal computers (Windows 95!) all over the country so that students could create their own creative liturgy as well.  I have personalized this particular Kabbalat Shabbat service for use at KESHER, at USC Hillel, and most recently for the Los Angeles Eastside’s “Final Friday Minyan.”  I hope you will enjoy it!